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By Scott M. Eckers

Following global warfare II, East Meadow built right into a suburban paradise a few 20 miles east of recent York urban. The hamlet�s identify used to be derived from its proximity to the colonial cost at Hempstead and the topography of the Hempstead Plains that coated a lot of present-day Nassau County. East Meadow was recognized for herding sheep, elevating livestock, and turning out to be potatoes�livestock often outnumbered the human inhabitants. huge farming estates of the Barnum, Carman-Lowden, and Fish households drove the neighborhood economic climate and existed along smaller farms and companies that dotted the colonial-era roads. East Meadow used to be additionally domestic to high-society Gilded Age mansions, harmful motor vehicle races, fashionable polo and golfing golf equipment, and recognized citizens similar to Eleanor Roosevelt, Joseph J. Lannin, and Alva Vanderbilt Belmont. Proximity to Mitchel Air strength Base and Roosevelt box positioned East Meadow at once less than the trail of significant plane firsts, reminiscent of Charles A. Lindbergh�s 1927 transatlantic flight.

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